To celebrate Vikings Live, we have replaced our Roman alphabet with the runic alphabet used by the Vikings, the Scandinavian ‘Younger Futhark’. The ‘Younger Futhark’ has only 16 letters, so we have used some of the runic letters more than once or combined two runes for one Roman letter.

"Is this a dagger I see before me?"

You will need:

Macbeth's dagger

Egged on by his wife, Macbeth has murdered King Duncan and seized
the throne. But he is tormented by guilt. In this famous speech he
sees a vision of the dagger used to do the deadly deed.

How to make

1. Download the dagger template and cut out all the pieces.

2. Place the two largest dagger template pieces onto your card
so that the arrows meet and they make the dagger shape. Draw round
this and cut it out.

3. Cut out the two ‘handle’ pieces of card. Stick them onto the
handle on top of each other, piece 1 first, then piece 2 on top of
this. This is to strengthen it. Do this on both sides of your
dagger (so you will need two of each piece). Then do the same with
the 'crossguard' pieces, first 1 then 2.

4. Now take your tin foil. Fold over one corner and line it up
with the dagger crosspiece. Place the blade on the foil and wrap
the foil over and over the blade, sticking it on with glue as you
go. Trim any extra pieces off.

5. Use felt tips pens to decorate the handle and crosspiece of
your dagger.